Thai woman arrested in Phuket on prostitution human trafficking charges

Phuket Gazette

Dujdao ‘Champagne’ Barana, 27, was charged with facilitating the trafficking of at least two women, and conspiring with three accomplices to lure women into prostitution. Photo: Police handout image

PHUKET: -- Immigration officials arrested a Thai woman believed to be at the center of an international human trafficking ring at Phuket International Airport on Friday as she tried to board a flight to Bahrain.

Dujdao “Champagne” Barana, 27, was arrested at 7pm by Capt Suppachai Moongaew and immediately taken to Bangkok.

After questioning by the Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTD) she was charged with facilitating the trafficking of a least two women, and conspiring with three accomplices to lure women into prostitution.

“We were contacted by a Thai woman around August 18 or 19, who managed to make a covert phone call from Bahrain, telling us that she [and other women] had been tricked into travelling there and were being held against their will as prostitutes.

“We contacted local officers in Bahrain to help rescue the women from the brothel where they were being held,” AHTD Deputy Commander Col Prasert Pattanadee said at a press conference in Bangkok.

“The brothel was located at 506 Fareed 4 Apartment, Manama, Bahrain. When Bahrain Police raided the apartment they discovered nine women locked up in a small room.

“One woman that escaped the apartment made a statement implicating Ms Dujdao and another, known to us as ‘Ms Benjawan’, as the people who kept them captive in Bahrain. She said they took everyone’s passport and kept them,” he said

The same woman also indicated that there was another Thai woman involved in the ring, who was named only as ‘Pat’.

Pat is allegedly married to a Bahraini man also involved in prostitution. The woman explained to police that it was Pat who contacted hotels and entertainment venues in Bahrain in order to sell the women's “services”.

“Once we collected and collated the evidence, we asked the Criminal Court for an arrest warrant and handed it to the Department of Immigration in Thailand,” said Col Prasert.

Although the authorities were able to arrest Ms Dujdao. Ms Benjawan and the mysterious “Pat” remain at large.

Col Prasert added that most human traffickers in Bahrain did not usually recruit the targets themselves. They tend to use women who are willing to take part in that line of work and used them to trick others, including friends, to come to Bahrain.

“They trick their friends to come by saying that their job in Bahrain pays very well. Most of the women who are working as prostitutes come from northern and the north-eastern Thailand. Once the women are there, they are forced to work and receive no money in return,” he said.

Col Prasert encouraged woman who were interested in finding legitimate work in Bahrain or other countries to be extraordinarily careful and to always double check all the information they are given.

“Anyone with information concerning human trafficking can report it directly to the AHTD hotline at 1191,” Col Prasert added.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...ticle17942.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-09-18

What a nightmare. What a horrible person.

If someone did this to my child, I would make it my entire will to hunt these people and hurt them.

If someone did this to my child, I would make it my entire will to hunt these people and hurt them.

Taken 3 (The movie)

Hopefully the Anti-Human Trafficking Division is comprised of decent moral people with integrity that actually believe in what they are doing vs showing effort to appease international powers that be. The PD in Pattaya and elsewhere profit from entertainment related business but assumedly do not when the women are exported (at least in this case)

Seems there is no lack of women like Dudjedao in society, willing to sell the children of others or even their own. I recall on one occasion while in a go go with some tourists the mamasan, unsolicited came over to me trying to sell / negotiate / promote / whatever, a dancer to go.... take away service. I told her I feel uncomfortable with her trying to sell someone to me. She took offense and proudly proclaimed how she even got her own daughter to work as a dancer. I guess everyone's personal perspective is different. To be fair and balanced there's lots of Thai's that would never sell their children or those of others.

this is all the farangs fault--as we all know all men are only here to get drunk and boom boom--

at least this is the way im treated from living here 3 years--btw this is NOT what i came here for either.

This is a story about a Thai woman who enticed women to Bahrain. Please read the full article before ridiculing the wrong people

"lure women into prostitution."

Imprisoned is more like it. Sounds like the prostitution part of it was previously known and part of the deal. Being held captive and no pay part that was not. Very sad situation a lot of girls get into when the promise of money is waved in front of them by evil people.

...she sure knows how to put on an innocent face....what a pro....what a monster....

...will she even be stopped........that is another question.....

...international human trafficking....that should fetch her 25 years minimum...

Every weekend, 30,000 good muslim Saudis go across the bridge to Bahrain. For entertainment?

Just do not put this incident translated into Arabic on You Tube. I think it would be a new uprising starting in Thailand.